Gameday Information: Northeastern (13-11, 6-6 CAA) at Charleston (19-6, 10-2)
When	Thursday, February 9  |  Charleston, S.C. | TD Arena  | 7 p.m.
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Game Notes	Northeastern (PDF) | Charleston (PDF)
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BOSTON – The Northeastern men's basketball team will round out its three-game road swing with a contest at the College of Charleston on Thursday night at 7 p.m.
 
The Huskies hold a 4-2 series lead against the Cougars who are 19-6 overall this season and tied atop the CAA with a 10-2 conference record in 2016-17.
 
The game can be found on CofCSports.com or CAA.TV.
 
QUICK HITS
• This is the 97th season of Northeastern men's basketball. Northeastern has an all-time record of 1,185-1,096 (.520) in 2,281 games
• The Huskies are 377-259 (.593) all-time in conference play including a 119-89 (.572) record since joining the CAA in the 2005-06 season
• The Huskies have amassed 12 regular season conference championships and eight tournament titles including a 2015 title which sent the Huskies to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 24 years
• The Huskies and The College will meet for just the seventh time in program history, with the Huskies leading the series, 4-2 including a 2-1 record in Charleston
• Bolden Brace earned CAA Co-Rookie of the Week honors after his career weekend last week against William & Mary and James Madison
• Brace, who entered the weekend averaging 4.5 ppg, finished with 20-point and 21-point efforts combining for a 11-for-20 effort from behind the arc
• Northeastern's first nine losses have come by a combined 38 points this season with its first four losses coming within four-points or fewer
 
CAA TOURNAMENT IN CHARLESTON
• The Huskies will take their first of two trips to Charleston beginning with this week's game against the Cougars
• Northeastern will return to the Lowcountry at the beginning of March for the CAA Championships, which will take place at the North Charleston Coliseum for the first time
• The North Charleston Coliseum seats 11,000 for basketball and has recently invested over $21 million dollars in enhancements. The multi-purpose complex is located within two miles of the Charleston International Airport and 10 miles from the historic district of Charleston
 
SCOUTING THE COUGARS
• The College of Charleston is  19-6 on the season and is tied atop the CAA standings with a 10-2 record. The Cougars have won their last three victories and 11 of the last 13 including a 67-66 victory over UNCW last Thursday.
• Charleston is 10-3 at home this season, including a 5-1 mark in conference play, the only blemish coming against UNCW in the middle of January
 
LEADING THE WAY
• Charleston is led by Joe Chealey who is averaging 16.3 points and 3.1 assists a game while pulling down 80 rebounds and making 24 steals
• 2016 CAA Rookie of the Year Jarrell Brantley is averaging a near-double-double with 12.9 points and 8.3 rebounds a game this season
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
• This will be just the seventh meeting between the two teams with the Huskies holding a 4-2 series lead
• Northeastern enters on a one-game win streak prevailing 58-57 on Senior Day last season as senior Quincy Ford tied and won the game on a pair of free throws down the stretch
 
LAST TIME VS. CHARLESTON
• After being iced twice at the free throw line, first as the officials dried the floor and, after making the game tying free throw, subsequently by the Charleston coaching staff, Quincy Ford knocked down the game-winning free throw with 4.7 seconds left in the ball game to give NU a 58-57 victory on Senior Night
• Ford was fouled driving on the game winning basket, and calmly knocked down two pressure free throws to leave Matthews, for the final time, with a win
• The win was key, as the Huskies improved to a tie for sixth place in the CAA with Charleston
• The win also signified head coach Bill Coen's 100th career CAA regular season victory in his 10 seasons at the helm of the Northeastern program
• Ford finished with nine points on the night to go along with nine rebounds.
• The Huskies were led by another senior, Zach Stahl who finished with 15 points. Stahl's 14th point, coming on a free throw, made him the 36th Northeastern basketball player to become a part of the 1,000-point club
 
LAST WEEK IN NU BASKETBALL
• The Huskies began the week with a road game at William & Mary, where Northeastern is 1-8 all-time with the lone win coming in the 2012-13 season
• Despite seven-straight wins on Groundhog Day, the streak was snapped with a 94-69 loss to the Tribe, who won their fourth straight home game by 18+ points
• The 25-point loss was the largest of the season for the Huskies, the previous largest coming by seven twice to Delaware and Towson
• No. 2 was the lucky number of the night as the Huskies' No. 2 Bolden Brace went off for his first 20-point effort of his career on a career-high six made 3-pointers on Feb. 2.
• T.J. Williams finished with 18 points, his 22nd 16+ point game of the season (out of 23) while Devon Begley finished with nine points, seven rebounds, a career-high two blocks and three steals
• On Saturday, the Huskies suited up just seven players and despite a hard-fought effort, led once again by Brace who finished with 21 points, fell 73-69 to JMU on the road
• The Huskies finished with a field goal percentage of  over 40 percent for the 19th & 20th time this season, and on Saturday tallied a >50 percent field goal percentage for the eighth time this season while extending their 3-pointer made streak to 114 games
 
POW! POW! POW!
• Five different Huskies have earned Player of the Week accolades including Bolden Brace who was named the CAA Co-Rookie of the Week last week following a career effort at William & Mary and James Madison
• Brace averaged 20.5 points while going 11-of-20 from three-point range in the Huskies' two road games
• The freshman guard, who entered the week averaging 4.5 points per game, hit 6-of-9 treys and scored a career-high 20 points at William & Mary, later topping that mark by hitting five threes and tallying 21 points with five rebounds at James Madison.
• He shot 58.3% from the floor for the week and paced the Huskies in each of their road games earning the first two 20-point games of his career
• After 18 points, six rebounds, two assists, two steals and a block against Michigan State, Alex Murphy was tabbed the CAA Co-Player of the week, his first career weekly honor for the grad student (Dec. 19)
• In addition he was named as the College Sports Madness High-Major National Player of the Week and the CS Madness CAA Player of the Week
• After putting up a career-high 12 points and a career-high tying four rebounds against Kent State, Rookie Max Boursiquot was honored as the CAA Rookie of the Week (Nov. 28)
• The freshman scored 10 of his 12 points in the second half to help the Huskies overcome a 17-point deficit at intermission, including six in a decisive 13-0 run
• Also following the Huskies' victory over Kent State, junior Devon Begley earned his first career Player of the Week honor as he was tabbed the College Sports Madness CAA Player of the Week
• Begley had a career night vs. the Golden Flashes putting up a team and career high 18 points and seven rebounds while also adding four assists and two steals
• Seven of Begley's 18 points came from the free throw line as he had a career best 7-for-8 effort, including two clutch free throws down the stretch
• For his efforts against Boston University on Nov. 11, T.J. Williams received multiple weekly honors
                       • Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Week
                       • College Sports Madness High-Major Player of the Week
                       • College Sports Madness CAA Player of the Week
• The honor was the second CAA POW honor of Williams' career with the last coming Jan. 5, 2014
 
HUSKIES FROM DEEP
• Northeastern has tallied a 3-point field goal in 114 straight games after the Huskies' 11-for-27 performance Saturday at James Madison
• The Huskies began their streak on Dec. 21, 2013 with a 5-for-21 effort against UW-Milwaukee after going 0-11 from the field against Fairfield on Dec. 13, 2013
• Since then, Northeastern has combined for 802 3-pointers for an average of 7.0 per game
• As a team, the Huskies have been adventagous behind the arc, second in the CAA with a .384 3-point field goal percentage, knocking down 210 threes (5th) on the season in 547 tries
• However, no individual Huskies rank in the top-10 in the CAA in made threes
• The Huskies have distributed the ball evenly from beyond the arc, as nine of Northeastern's 11 players have connected from deep this season, led by Devon Begley's 40, while Alex Murphy has tallied 39, and freshmen Bolden Brace and Shawn Occeus have connected on 35 and 32 threes respectively
• Brace went 11-for-20 from behind the arc last weekend against William & Mary and James Madison
 
T.J. (TO THE) MAXX
• After averaging 6.8 points per game, which ranked fifth on the Northeastern men's basketball team last season, T.J. Williams has drastically improved upon his season average in his senior season
• The senior is currently averaging a CAA leading 21.3 points per game, a 14.5 point increase or 313% increase from last season
• Williams' 14.5 ppg increase is the largest PPG increase of any player in Division-I men's basketball
 

Name	Increase	School
T.J. Williams	+14.5	Northeastern
Justin Wright-Foreman	+14.3	Hofstra
Jonathan Wade	+13.9	Norfolk State
Noah Allen	+13.5	Hawaii